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This is an update of my Beowulf1 font, which has been out and about just about forever, and which you see in lots of places from websites to book covers to TV titles. This version, never before released, has a modern mode (legible to modern readers) and a historical mode (for teachers and purists). Unlike the original version, it has ligatures and a number of other OpenType features.
A reproduction of the English Caroline minuscule hand of the great eleventh-century Canterbury scribe Eadui Basan. It has modern and historical modes and numerous contextual alternates and other cool features. It has been available on various websites for years, though it is not as well known as Beowulf1.
Based on the ninth-century Royal Bible, BL MS Royal 1 E. VI, a splendid example of insular hybrid minuscule. It contains caps in three different styles, one of which has long been available as the font "Anglo-Saxon Caps" (from 1993!), which you see everywhere. Cissanthemos has modern and historical modes and a very large number of contextual alternates, giving it an irregular, hand-made look.
Based on the first hand of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS 173, "The Parker Chronicle." The font is named after the book because I haven't yet thought up a better name for it. With modern and historical modes and plenty of OpenType goodies. This has been seen in public precisely once, when I gave a copy to the proprietor of Blue Mountain Brewery to use on the label of "Adambeor," an Old English-themed craft beer that you can sample if you ever find yourself, post-pandemic, driving through Afton, Virginia. (He paid me for my help and the font with two cases of his really excellent beer.)
The secretary hand font, mentioned here a few days ago.
A modern variable font mainly for web use. If you don't know what a variable font is, visit https://psb1558.github.io/Elstob-font/ and play around. There are lots of OpenType features, outlined in an accompanying document, and these are also available in a desktop version, ElstobD. This has been submitted to Google Fonts, but they're so backed up, I don't know when they'll get to it, if ever.
Repository: https://github.com/psb1558/Elstob-font